The reason why we are not simply transported to paradise or caught up to Heaven as soon as we believe and come to faith is because we have a job to do here on Earth. God has Kingdom work for us to do, and we have got a message to deliver…

On the 18 February 2013 this headline appeared in the Daily Telegraph: ‘Postman jailed for burying 30,000 letters in garden.’ Jabur Hissan, a thirty-two year old Royal Mail postman felt unable to keep up the demanding postal route he had been given, so he took an unusual approach to solving his problem. He put on his washed and ironed uniform and his polished shoes, jumped into his shiny red van, and dumped some of the letters into a canal. Then he burned around 400 more, and the other 29,000 items of mail he couldn’t be bothered to deliver he buried in his garden. He may have looked every inch a postman, but he refused to deliver the letters he had been given. His actions denied that identity of a postman.

Cited by Krish Kandiah: Paradoxology, 2014, London: Hodder & Stoughton, p.174